Caveat: Let me be clear. It's not the streaming that's the issue. It's the royalties paid primarily to the BIG artists and almost zero to the small artists. Stream OK, but BUY THE MUSIC YOU LOVE. Support the musicians themselves and not just the mega-corp labels, lawyers, and streaming companies. +++ I know it's an [...][Continue Reading...]

So for me, the 3rd device is a nice to have, but not a must have. Maybe the next generation of iPads will have something that changes the game even more than they already have. But I'm still thinking that most developers and creators will be using Laptops for the foreseeable future. And probably not WIN 8 laptops.[Continue Reading...]

So for me, while I have GoDaddy domains coming up for renewal I will move everything to Google Domains. One more egg in Google's basket, yes, but cutting the ties with GoDaddy once and for all will be a welcome completion. [Continue Reading...]

As an email and contact platform Facebook is just "one more" device that I needed to check. Now, I've deleted the Facebook app from my phone, and that right there is about 50% of my distracted phone time, that I now have to do something else with.[Continue Reading...]

So we're back on the train. And my site is back on the speeding bullet train of SSD-powered cloud hosting. Take a look around. Check out the various areas of the site and see if you notice the responsiveness of the site. And if you're in the business of web marketing, you might consider what a SLOW server is costing you.[Continue Reading...]

Here's the problem with APPS: With a tool like Tweetdeck we'd never need to go to the Circles/Google+ page, and that's where the value is for Google. That's what's happened to Twitter. No one goes to Twitter.com. 80% of Twitter's traffic is via APIs and 3rd party Apps. Twitter cannot serve you an AD if you're not on Twitter.com. (But I'm sure in-stream ADs are coming, because Twitter has yet to figure out how to make money on Tweets.) // So for now the value to Google is to get us into the their G-Universe and then sell us, track us, know us. With Google it's all going to be about integration. I'm not so convinced that's a great thing. Sometimes we need separation to keep things straight.[Continue Reading...]

Is it okay for a social media site to use your other accounts to auto-connect you with companies, causes, likes, dislikes, followers, friends, enemies? Where is it NOT okay? Searching around Quora I didn't find a way to disallow the friend/link mining function. And if I wanted to I could simply go to every single 1,662 quora profile and UNFOLLOW them directly.[Continue Reading...]

But the real jury is still out. Am I having fun? Am I spending more time thinking about my phone than I want to? Would I take my Blackberry Curve back? And what if I had an option for an iPhone 4. What would that be worth? What's it gonna cost me to get out of my contract? Decisions for the future. For now Froyo and I are still getting to know one another.[Continue Reading...]

So yesterday I just about tossed my Samsung Transform back into the shipping box it came in. But as I learned more about what was going on, I found out my phone was just working very hard to sync all of my contacts from Google to the phone. And last night I did some research and started installing a few new tools on my Android-powered phone. This is day two.[Continue Reading...]